Orientalism and the Figure of the JewOrientalism and the Figure of the Jew proposes a new way of understanding modern Orientalism. Tracing a path of modern Orientalist thought in German across crucial writings from the late eighteenth to the midtwentieth centuries, Librett argues that Orientalism and anti Judaism are inextricably entangled. Librett suggests, further, that the Western assertion of material power, in terms of which Orientalism is often read, is overdetermined by a